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Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 1) 14

Apple won't be releasing any source code, just thinking different.
Disney and Oracle will release the hounds.

Apple is not obliged to release Darwin, as it is BSD licences, yet they do. That in itself is commendable.

As other commenters said, they maintain WebKit (GPLv2). And many smaller browsers live of Apple's webkit.

Other lesser projects abound.

PS1: Ditto with Sonny, they not release the source of the PS5, but contribute A LOT to Upstream xBSD
PS2: Many people at apple and Sone will be watching very closely the Ladybird project. Not because of it being a browser with a new and very strong security foundation, but because is one of the few browsers with a BSD license, which is what these two companies preffer.

Comment Middleclick paste WAS great, not anymore (Score 0) 102

When there were only 3 button mice, middle click paste was absolutely fantastic, used it estensively in the late '90s and early '00s in many unix workstations at Uni and early work.

But nowadays, the world is dominated by trackpads with gestures that do not have 3rd buttons, and mouses where the middle button is also a scrollwheel, leading to the aforemntioned acttidents.

As a matter of fact, I map the third wheel to "open link in new tab"

So yes, get rid of third button paste by default. Put whatever default you think is more sensible, not necesarily my preference, but put something else in the third button

Comment Phone RAM directly competes with... (Score 1) 27

Phone RAM directly competes with Laptop RAM, Compact Desktop RAM and server RAM

The same RAM chips (LP-DDR5) that go into a phone can go into a desktop or laptop, either directly soldered to the MoBo, or in CAMM2 or SO-CAMM 2 modules. And in servers, using, again SO-CAMM2 (while SO-CAMM2 can be used in laptops and compact desktops, it was designed primarely for server and datacenter applications).

No need to reconfigure the production lines, change the lithography masks, change procecess or anything. Literaly the same chips in the same organic encapsulations with the same pin distribution.

Comment Re:US does not recognize Maduro's government (Score 1) 180

You are already behind.

In the press conference, Trump said he does not want the legitimate winner (MarÃa Corina Machado) to take over.

In fairness, the winner was Edmundo Gonzalez-Urrutia. Yes, that guy onl won because MariaCorina could not run, so she raised his hand. But still HE is the president, and SHE has already confirmed she will "just" be the VP

PS: In Venezuela the Executive VP has more power and attributions than a VP in the USoA

Comment Re:US does not recognize Maduro's government (Score 5, Interesting) 180

The opposition leader USA is backing has won no election.

The venezuelan contitution demands that detailed results of the elections be presented 90 days after the fact. This has not happened, so, Maduro's govt violated the constitution. the "Moral power" (in venezuela we are a 5 powers state, while the USoA only has 3) is obliged to inhabilitate any civil servant that does not comply with their duties (like electoral functionaries not showing results in 90 days, or electoral supreme court not ruling on elecoral matters in 120 days), that also has not happened.

Meanwhile, the opposition showed reasonable proof that they won in 2024 3:1...

Comment Re:What I want to see (Score 2) 180

What I want to see is if Trump's claims that the US will now be magically in control of Venezuela holds true because without that removing this guy is pointless. His VP (who is likely just as corrupt as Maduro is) will just come to power and then what's even the point of all this?

Maybe our government has infiltrated Venezuela's enough that we can follow this arrest with a coup that might actually change things there. I kind of doubt this administration planned that far ahead though.

The constitution says that if the president's absence is permanent (which it is), elections have to be had in 90 days. And the law here does not has provisions like in ucraine, that elections can not be held during invasion. Also, there is no invasion.

In the next days, watch closely if they call for elections or not. that will be the clue/cue for more actions. Either more "surgical extractions" if there are no elections, or wait and see if there are elections.

Comment Re:Now Comes the Nation Building??? (Score 1) 180

As a veteran of the last Regime Change/ Nation Building exercise that ended in failure, I can only think that capturing (kidnapping) Maduro was the easy part. Trump has publicly declared we're going to run Venezuela now. But removing Maduro doesn't remove his government. Marudo was just the top of the pyramid. All the other layers are still in place. So I don't know how Trump is supposed to run Venezuela, unless he proceeds with some sort of invasion. I highly doubt the rest of the Venezuelan government will simply surrender to American occupation. If anything, I think removing Maduro was a symbolic exercise for an ego-driven and insecure President, who disparately craves attention and demands respect and fear. Imho. Maduro was a marginal leader, and if anything his replacement will be far more competent and more resilient than Maduro was.

Keep on doing extractions on people with tribunal issued capture orders and bounties on their heads, and keep issuing tribunal capture orders and bounties until moral improves, and chavistas that want to play ball rise through the ranks by sheer attrition.

Slow and costly in the short term, but effective and cheaper than boots on the ground in the long term
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Comment Re:Maduro's successor Delcy Rodriguez (Score 1) 180

Just turned up in Russia. I think you'll start to see the the high level actors that were complicit in Cartel de los Soles activity rushing the exits now.

That was the rumour in the early morning. The rumour now in mid-day is that she is in caracas, in hididng from other factions of the chavista apparatus that want her head.

May I remind you that unlike Padrino and Cabello, she (and her brother Jorge, president of the Assamblea) do not have tribunal issued capture orders, or bounties on their head, like Maduro, and other high raking figures of chavismo do. Those are first in line for future extractions.

Comment Re:now do putin (Score 1) 180

I see so many crazy people comparing ruzzian invasion of Ukraine and this arrest of a specific dictator... if USA really wanted to do something useful, Trump would have arrested putin in Alaska instead of rolling out the red carpet (while yelling at Zelensky).
In any case, how about taking a logical step and doing the same thing in ruzzia, iran, north korea, cuba?

Putin and Kim have Nukes, and targets that the USoA values. Maduro has no nukes.

Comment Re:Colombia next... (Score 1) 180

I'm guessing Petro is going to be a LOT less "argumentative" now.

His administration already rejected/condemned the attack and extraction.

Petro is not worried, there is plenty people in line in from of him with USoAn court aprehension orders and bounties on their head before the USoA even thinks about snatching him.

While the trump admin shows a blantant disregard for intl and national law, the modicum of pretense they still have is towards internal law, and Petro is not a wanted man in the USoA, yet

Comment Re:US does not recognize Maduro's government (Score 4, Informative) 180

The question of legitimacy, as seen by the US, concerning the presidency of Venezuela, is simple enough. It's whether the current government at odds with US or not.

while you are 100% right, in this particular case, you are not 107% right. There are a few nuances, mostly that these guys never showed detailed election results, as the constitution mandates, meanwhile, the opposition showed decent proof they won 3:1. i.e. this guy stole the 2024 elections.

Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world, and basically all politics in the country boils down to the power struggle of a US connected elite who wants to control the oil, mostly in favour of US Big Oil, and a populist leftist faction who wants to control the oil, mostly in favour of the general populace. The trouble has since forever been two-fold - when the US backed elite is out of power, the US is always working with them to cause trouble for the leftist government. And when the US backed elite is in power, it's blatant disregard for the needs of the country and general populace works towards it's own yet another downfall.

There is a snag in your narrative. The Trump administration consulted BigOil in the USoA, and most/all of the companies said that they did not want to come back here (for the companies that were expropiated in 2008), or said that they had no interest to enter (USoA players that had never been in Venezuela). And I doubt Trump risked american lives to hep BRITISH Petroleum or Royal DUTCH Shell... or repsol (Spain) or Eni (italy), or worse yet, China and India... so.... the oil american companies do not want to extract? Really?

It doesn't help that so far any leftist government has been unable to do much but buy public welfare with oil money, without building and actual strong economy for the country. This brings about things like great improvement in pretty much every metric of public welfare during the Chávez years, which coicided with good oil prices, yet a lot of it was undone when oil prices crashed.

This doesn't mean people necessarily love Maduro or Chávez or the lot, although many do, too. It's just that exactly like in every other country where the US takes to meddle for it's own interest, the US is univerally hated and people will opt for literally anyone who is not associated with them. Maybe in a similar vein like when you really hate Hillary or Biden, Trump starts to look pretty good.

Now as to the linked Blinken statement... One should by now know the difference of the actions of politics, and the rhetoric used to sell these actions. First the ends are settled on, and then unrelated talking points are constructed to reach the means needed obtain the ends. Any public statement by the government should thus be seen for what it is, bullshit not worth the breath used to utter it.

PS: I am a Venezuelan, living in Venezuela, Visiting Family in the most Militarized State (Aragua), in the most militarized city (save for Caracas), Maracay... So, eyes on site.

Comment Re: Which Nokia? (Score 2) 19

Do you feel like a tobacco company lackey now that cellphone use has been proven harmful to minors?

I worked in the telco side, in the operator. NMS2000, Traffica Z1, IN, CEMoD. And I did so in an era when cellphone service brought a 6% GDP increase for countries vs. No cellphone use.

So no, do not feel like a Tobacco company Lackey. Would feel like that if I worked for/in Android, iPhone's iOS, FB/Instagram, tiktok et al. Is not cellphone use that is harfull to minors. Minors would be harmed equaly watching tikTok AI slop on a phone, a tablet, a laptop or a desktop...

Comment Re:Which Nokia? (Score 1) 19

Worth noting that HMD is basically "old Nokia Mobile Phones guys that started a company on location on the opposite side of the street of the old headquarters".

Haven't been doing well though. I know a few people who worked there, and they seem to have mostly refocused on third word markets last I checked.

HMD is mostly owned by Foxconn. Like many others, they were happy to pay Nokia Royalties for the brand while they were trying to stand on their own to feet and make themselves a niche in the market, but not anymore, thay are trnasitioning to use the HMD brand exclusively.

They inherited most of Nokia's Dumbphone factories And many of said factories in (more expensive) Europe. IDK if said factories are still operating. Also, they have Foxconn's manufacturing might behind them.

And yes, they are pivoting to the emerging marktes, and rightly so, as developed markets are hyper-saturated. They used KaiOS for a long while, but after KaiTech fumbled the ball, they went at it alone with their own dumbphone OS, which shares name with another unrelated dumbphone OS they used in the past, complicating web searches...

They have mix of "dumber than smart but smarter than dumb" phones, some Midranges, and a couple of low quantity flagships mostly for bragging rights.

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